Category Archives: Autism

The last week has just been crazy in our house. It all started with David threatening to kill someone on his brother’s facebook account, and it snowballed from there. So what have we learned here? We learned that kids can hide pills in their mouth, under the tongue, in the lower cheek area near the jaw. Kids are good at determining when they want to stop taking their pills. But not so good at making the decision to do so. We learned that doctors don’t believe parents who say “we make sure that he takes his pills 4 times a day.” We learned that some medicines are not carried by major pharmacies and can only be filled at a hospital. We learned that medicines go a long way toward stabilising behaviours of kids with severe ADHD. We learned that nurses and doctors can be very rude when you interrupt the

It’s in the past. That is how David responds when we try to talk to him about the threats that he made toward that individual on facebook. “I don’t want to talk about it, because it’s in the past.” It was last Wednesday February 29. Just because it is in the past doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it. He is not allowed to use computers. So he argued with his mom about using the iPad. So now he isn’t allowed to be in his room alone. Why? he steals and it is easier to keep an eye on him in the common areas rather than in his room. Why? He shares a room with his older brother and his older brother has a computer. So very frustrated. David managed to convince the hospital staff that he was an angel and didn’t get his medicine because mom and dad didn’t

Well yesterday, we took our youngest to the hospital and admitted him to the psych unit. Today I got a call from the doctor in the ward. He asked me why we had not been giving David his medicines. When I explained that we had been giving them to him four times a day, and watching him take them, the doctor began to see things a little more clearly. Evidently David has not been swallowing his medicine. The blood work doesn’t show any rittalin or zyprexa in his blood which means he hasn’t swallowed any for at least three days. So now we are going to get him back on his medicines, and work on getting some compliance issues taken care of that will ensure that he takes his medicine like he is supposed to. Tweet #fighting4answrs